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Catatonia vs Semicatatonic - What's the difference?

catatonia | semicatatonic |

As a noun catatonia

is a severe psychiatric condition, often associated with schizophrenia, characterized by a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation.

As an adjective semicatatonic is

in a state partially resembling catatonia.

catatonia

English

(wikipedia catatonia)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A severe psychiatric condition, often associated with schizophrenia, characterized by a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation

    • Derived terms

    * catatonic

    semicatatonic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • In a state partially resembling catatonia.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 24, author=Ben Brantley, title=Swimming Across the Rough Sea of History, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=When these people speak — and they do at length, often in lyrical monologues of unexpected beauty — it is with the semicatatonic air of someone waking from a long sleep, grasping for fragments of vanished dreams. }}